Tim Lister explains the principles of Agile Project Leadership in a video tutorial: Watch it with his slides as subtitles: “Introduction to Agile Leadership” You can also find this tutorial as podcast at the Agile Toolkit Podcast.
Archive for April, 2008
As projects get more complex, I came to use Subversion’s externals. This SVN property enables you to use more than one ‘checkout’ inside your architecture. For example if you are using Zend Framework as an external library, why make a ‘hard’ copy of it? It gets out of date very quickly, right? Externals allows you [...]
What does it take to start a successful business? “Podcast that explores how entrepreneurs build their businesses and live their lives.” http://www.venturevoice.com
This is a nice collection of podcasts and videos of today’s entrepreneurial leaders talking about various success factors: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html Podcast-RSS: http://www.stanford.edu/group/edcorner/uploads/podcast/EducatorsCorner.xml
Conversations about software development and the OO-world. Even if you did not yet dive deeper into Java (like me) you can learn a lot for your work with PHP5. “The Java Posse is a group of four veteran Java software architects that know eachother well, love to talk about Java technology (and technology in general), [...]
Some days ago I saw some colleagues using more than >2 computers with one keyboard and one mouse, dragging the mouse across multiple screens with different operating systems and using the clipboard accross them. Wow! This is done with a tool named Synergy. Here is my setup with Windows XP and Mac OSX: I did [...]
This set of slides by Daniel Naber from his talk at JAZOON07 provides a nice overview on the Apache projects Lucene, Solr and Nutch: http://www.danielnaber.de/publications/jazoon07_naber.pdf
I came across a nice paper explaining best practices in using version control (Subversion) in multiple agile team projects. The lack of concept, clarity and existence of understandable rules often leads to confusion in teams I work in. Regular merging down from the stable mainline (catch-up) and merge and copy up (publish) of stable features [...]
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